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From the sport that brought you a race won from a stationary position in the pitlane (Michael Schumacher, British Grand Prix, 1998) comes a new absorbing high for the armchair viewer: the grand prix won by accident.

“I did a mistake,” Sebastian Vettel claimed afterwards, in the apologetic aftermath of overtaking his team-mate and banking 25 highly attractive World Championship points in Kuala Lumpur.

“I didn’t do it deliberately,” he added for clarification, seeming to imply that, while it was undoubtedly the case that he had come screaming inside Mark Webber on lap 46 before barrelling to the chequered flag,